10 Jun 2025
Warm greetings on #thicktrunktuesday to all the lovely Treepeople here.
I couldn't decide which tree from #TheFiveAcreForest to greet you with, so here are fifteen ๐
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7 Jan 2025
Nฤซkau palms in Oratia ๐ (no filters)
The Nฤซkau is also the symbol of Oratia Media @OratiaBooks
#oratia #oratiabooks #auckland #waitakereranges #aotearoa #newzealand #conservation #nznativebush #nznativetrees
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22 Jan 2024
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21 Jan 2024
A precocious Kauri. She's only young but she's grown two female cones this summer. I say 'she' from natural bias but Kauri are hermaphrodite, male cones look like fat cigars.
#trees in #TheFiveAcreForest #NZNativeTrees
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16 Jan 2024
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19 Dec 2023
Not forgetting to wish you all a green and happy #thicktrunktuesday from a young Totara, Chief of the Forest.
#trees #NZNativeTrees in #TheFiveAcreForest
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3 Dec 2023
Our pohutukawa tree has begun to bloom - it was supposed to be an 'ornamental shrub'. It's 5 metres tall!
#mygarden #myphoto #nznativetrees
ALT The iconic pohutukawa tree graces our garden and blooms in December.
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9 Nov 2023
A lovely sunny evening and a wonderful gush of confidence from these silver tree ferns ๐๐
#ferns #trees #NZNativeTrees in #TheFiveAcreForest
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23 Oct 2023
I was taken to Puketi Forest today to walk among giants - our iconic Kauri tree. What a wonderful day! More pics to follow....
#trees #NZNativeTrees #forests
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2 Oct 2023
I meant to add this juvenile celery pine - the one I took cuttings from - to show you what she is aiming at The foliage and tiny male and female cones are lovely ๐
#trees #NZNativeTrees in #TheFiveAcreForest
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19 Aug 2023
Wonderful idea! I can recommend it after 23 years planting on my own property in the Far North, described in The Five Acre Forest, with the deep-time history of our extraordinary sand country landscape.
#conservationweek #NZNativeTrees
14 Aug 2023
At home action:๐ฆPlanting for the birds๐ฟ
Check out these downloadable guides from @greaterwgtn to get you started on restoration planting specific to the area you live, and bring the birds to your back yard this #conservationweek
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gw.govt.nz/environment/our-nโฆ
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11 Aug 2023
Busy day with a visitor and then fitting in various jobs but I remembered your #flowersonfriday and popped out to photograph the pink manuka which is looking gorgeous ๐
#flowers #NZNativeTrees
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29 Jun 2023
I missed #thicktrunktuesday because I had no internet, so the senior Kauri greets you two days late ๐ ๐๐
#trees in #TheFiveAcreForest #NZNativeTrees
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31 Mar 2023
From the archive for #flowersonfriday because it's a dull day - exquisite flowers of our rewarewa (Knightia excelsa, NZ honeysuckle).
#flowers #NZNativeTrees
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21 Feb 2023
Happy #thicktrunktuesday lovely Treepeople, from Rimu ๐
#trees @NZNativeTrees
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4 Feb 2023
Another tiring muggy day. Let's have a tree ๐
A young Totora, chief of the forest.
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23 Jan 2023
Our kohekohe (Dysoxylum spectabile) is still only in tight little buds on the branches, but this is what I'm looking forward to ๐คIn traditional medicine, a decoction of bark & leaves were drunk as a tonic - to me, to see the flowers is a tonic ๐
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27 Dec 2022
Holiday weekend is no reason to forget #thicktrunktuesday The beautiful silvery bark of a young kauri tree ๐
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29 Nov 2022
Red-leaved akeake bear pink pink seeds; the seeds of green akeake are light green. The bark of both is tan coloured and, when adult, is shed in long strips.
(Dodonaea viscosa)
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29 Nov 2022
A young tough pioneer, akeake, looking pretty in the gentle light that filtered through the clouds today. These are not pink flowers, they are winged seeds. The flowers (last pic) are the size of a pinhead.
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